Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Belgium and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Soulsonic Force to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Sixth Finger,
Rotary Connection,
Newcleus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Saccharine Trust,
Rufus Thomas,
The Black Dice,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Albert Ayler,
The Sonics,
U.S. Maple,
Matthew Bourne,
Soulsonic Force,
Joyce Sims,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Barclay James Harvest,
Patti Smith,
Franke,
Television,
The Count Five,
Bobby Sherman,
Magma,
Cybotron,
Altered Images,
Scan 7,
Blake Baxter,
Eli Mardock,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cal Tjader,
Archie Shepp,
Kas Product,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Echospace,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gladiators,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fugs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-102,
Alton Ellis,
Audionom,
The Young Rascals,
Bauhaus,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
China Crisis,
The Cramps,
Faust,
Spandau Ballet,
Susan Cadogan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monks,
Interpol,
The Electric Prunes,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.